Hi-
I maintain the nmh "port" for FreeBSD (which basically just defines a
Makefile, a few patch files and some package system control files...from
which the software is ftp'd from its master site, extracted, patched,
configured and installed).
I just got this request from a user:
> >Synopsis: [PATCH] mail/nmh should use local pipe delivery, not SMTP
>
> >Description:
>
> Currently the mail/nmh port configures nmh to use SMTP as the
> delivery method for outgoing mail. This is not ideal, since
> many machines will not accept SMTP connections from localhost,
> either because they run no listening daemon, or because they're
> wrapped up anally.
>
> >Fix:
>
> By compiling nmh to open a pipe to the mta instead of connecting
> to port 25 on localhost, we improve the odds that the software
> will work out of the box on any given box.
> [...add --with-mts=sendmail to configure args...]
But I haven't had wide enough experience to judge which would be
better to do by default. Any comments on whether or not it'd be
better to have this do "sendmail" or "smtp" by default?
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